Some favourite things and places in New York
– Favorite subway entrance: New York Life Insurance Company building, at 27th and Park
– Favorite dessert place: Room 4 Dessert
– Favorite French restaurant: Bouley
– Favorite unexpeced pleasure: hearing street musicians jam (subway, Central Park, Times Square… anywhere!), from Chinese harps to banging trash cans. Favorite subway station to hear street musicians jamming away: Union Square (just saw HetandJef, and then thesawlady on the first level, and a guy banging empty paint buckets and creating incredible percussion sound on the second level)
– Favorite catering (for when work goes on and on and on and you need someone to bring you something to munch on): Tasty
– Favorite place to be-and-be-seen: Pastis restaurant (and the whole meatpacking district)
– Favorite place to have Calpico: Sui Water (while watching the fish in their tanks, and the sushi chefs working behind the bar)
– Favorite place to shop for replica watches: Canal St. at Centre St.
– Favorite roof-top restaurant and buffet: Marriot Marquis (Times Square)
– Favorite book store: The Strand
– Favorite train station: Grand Central (that was an easy guess)